Peeping Tom may be out in six months

A peeping Tom who broke into a Coolum home and molested a four-year-old girl could be out of jail in six months.

Shane Roy Jones, 32, originally from Townsville, was yesterday sentenced to serve six years behind bars for the horrific attack in January last year.

He will be eligible for parole in June because of time already served.

Maroochydore District Court heard that he watched the young girl’s mother and her partner have sex, before he let himself into the home and went upstairs where he found the sleeping child. Mr Jones then carried the young girl downstairs where he performed a sex act on her. He stole a mobile phone from the home and later called the four year-old’s mother to say, “you two are lesos and you’ve got a sexy girl”.

Defence barrister Steve Courtney said Mr Jones was under the influence of the drug ice at the time of the offence, and had not slept for up to a week. He was homeless at the time.

Mr Courtney said Mr Jones had been in protective custody in jail.

“Word spread about the nature of the offending and he is currently a marked man,” Mr Courtney said.

Judge Dodds said Mr Jones had shown an “apparent lack of empathy” for his victims, and also summarised a written statement from the four-year old’s mother.